Since the 1960s, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program (TAA) has helped millions of trade-impacted workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own start a new chapter in the new economy by providing a path for employment growth and opportunity.
The Laborers’ union (LIUNA) partnered with Community Churches United for Baltimore Jobs to provide job training in the construction trades to unemployed workers.
Jobless ironworker describes how he survives on one meal a day while taking care of his ill father.
A jobless woman wonders what happened to the American dream.
IBEW Local 24 member Cory McCray says his union apprenticeship helped him enter adulthood with a firm footing in the middle class.
Union Plus benefits provide savings, security and, when times are tough, solidarity.
This is a story of immigration, prejudice and discrimination, government surveillance and a war on terror, as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Sound familiar? Except this event happened 75 years ago.
Miren este video de “Los Washeros” de Los Ángeles, los primeros lavadores de automóvil que se han organizado para negociar por mejores salarios y beneficios. También fueron nombrados por el sitio de Internet Cuéntame como “La Voz Latina del 2011”. ¡Felicitaciones!
Ruth Oditt tells how she has benefited from union-based collective bargaining.
The union movement is helping to rebuild the American Dream—AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
